Your Top Ten Symphonies

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Novi

#100
May 21, 2007, 02:52:10 PM
No particular order:

Beethoven 7
Beethoven 3
Brahms 4 (oh yeah!)
Mahler 6
Mozart 40
Mozart 41
Bruckner 8
Bruckner 9
Sibelius 4
Shostakovich 8

Some of these lists are great - all stuff I've never heard. I think I need to explore a whole lot more.
Durch alle Töne tönet
Im bunten Erdentraum
Ein leiser Ton gezogen
Für den der heimlich lauschet.

S709

#101
May 23, 2007, 03:52:28 PM
Quote from: quintett op.57 on May 19, 2007, 02:16:42 PM
Obviously, no composer could have as many works as Haydn mentioned in this thread ! ;)
so far:
102
104 (3 times)
6
96
77
101
98
85
22
82
63
But it seems he's still too neglected. Or maybe people don't know how to choose one.

Indeed, and I love all those choices. :D

Quote from: greg on May 20, 2007, 11:12:30 AM
ah, nice list

Thanks! Do you know the Coates 14th then?


BTW thanks to all for the fascinating lists... there were a few mentioned which I haven't heard yet so this is very useful.

sonic1

#102
May 23, 2007, 05:44:55 PM
I hate these kinds of lists, but here is a shot: likely to be different next week. No, it definitely different next week:

Shostakovich 4th
Schubert 8th
Beethoven 6th
Brahms 1st
Gorecki 3rd
Copland 3rd
Sibelius 6th
Bruckner 9th
Mahler 1st
Prokofiev 1st

oh, god. Somewhere i want to fit in Lutoslawski 4th and Vaughan Williams 2nd....and...

Bogey

#103
May 23, 2007, 08:55:34 PM
Quote from: Bogey on May 17, 2007, 04:31:18 PM
To quote David: "As of today":

Bruckner No. 4
Beethoven No. 3
Beethoven No. 5
Mozart No. 39
Haydn No. 77
Sibelius No. 1
Copland No. 3
Brahms No. 1
Boyce No. 1
Honneger No. 2

and an honorable mention for:

Dukas Symphony in C Major


Ya see....it already has been updated  ;D:

Honneger No. 2

Copland Short Symphony (Symphony No. 2)
There will never be another era like the Golden Age of Hollywood.  We didn't know how to blow up buildings then so we had no choice but to tell great stories with great characters.-Ben Mankiewicz

Maciek

#104
May 24, 2007, 10:55:51 AM
I must say, even though I like the Gorecki 3rd very much (not as much as his 2nd though), I'm surprised (pleasantly) it made it onto some many people's lists. :D

Dancing Divertimentian

#105
May 24, 2007, 06:56:43 PM
All I need is for Brahms to have written six more symphonies and I'd have my top ten.




Veit Bach-a baker who found his greatest pleasure in a little cittern which he took with him even into the mill and played while the grinding was going on. In this way he had a chance to have the rhythm drilled into him. And this was the beginning of a musical inclination in his descendants. JS Bach

George

#106
May 24, 2007, 06:57:46 PM
Quote from: donwyn on May 24, 2007, 06:56:43 PM
All I need is for Brahms to have written six more symphonies and I'd have my top ten.

;D

Dancing Divertimentian

#107
May 24, 2007, 07:03:05 PM
Veit Bach-a baker who found his greatest pleasure in a little cittern which he took with him even into the mill and played while the grinding was going on. In this way he had a chance to have the rhythm drilled into him. And this was the beginning of a musical inclination in his descendants. JS Bach

Lilas Pastia

#108
May 25, 2007, 04:19:41 PM Last Edit: May 25, 2007, 07:52:09 PM by Lilas Pastia
Quote from: donwyn on May 24, 2007, 06:56:43 PM
All I need is for Brahms to have written six more symphonies and I'd have my top ten.


Well, he wrote four concertos and 2 serenades, so that makes 10 symphonies ;D

Dancing Divertimentian

#109
May 25, 2007, 07:09:58 PM
Quote from: Lilas Pastia on May 25, 2007, 04:19:41 PM
Wll, he wrote four concertos and 2 serenades, so that makes 10 symphonies ;D

Yes, forgot about those! ;D



Veit Bach-a baker who found his greatest pleasure in a little cittern which he took with him even into the mill and played while the grinding was going on. In this way he had a chance to have the rhythm drilled into him. And this was the beginning of a musical inclination in his descendants. JS Bach

longears

#110
May 26, 2007, 05:16:44 AM
"Frequency on the spinner" in the past year:

Mahler 4
Sibelius 4
Bruckner 7
Nielsen 4
Hovanhess 2
RVW 6
Prokofiev 5
Dvorak 7
Rautavaara 7
Adams Naive and Sentimental Music

jwinter

#111
June 15, 2007, 07:34:35 PM
Missed this thread too... [bump]

Going with one from each...

Beethoven 7
Brahms 1
Bruckner 8
Haydn 88
Mahler 3
Mozart 40
Prokofiev 5
Schubert 9
Sibelius 2
Tchaikovsky 6
The man that hath no music in himself,
Nor is not moved with concord of sweet sounds,
Is fit for treasons, stratagems, and spoils.
The motions of his spirit are dull as night,
And his affections dark as Erebus.
Let no such man be trusted.

-- William Shakespeare, The Merchant of Venice

Christo

#112
June 15, 2007, 08:59:46 PM
Decided that this particular early morning they must be:

1. Vaughan Williams, A Pastoral Symphony
2. Vaughan Williams, the Sixth
3. Vaughan Williams, the Ninth
4. Tubin, his Sixth
5. Braga Santos, the Fourth (but without the chorus ..)
6. Holmboe, Eight
7. Arnell, his Third (wow, what a major 2006 discovery!)
8. Diamond, his Third too
9. Kinsella, his Third too: 'Joie de Vivre'
10. Guarnieri, his Second: 'Uirapuru'
... music is not only an 'entertainment', nor a mere luxury, but a necessity of the spiritual if not of the physical life, an opening of those magic casements through which we can catch a glimpse of that country where ultimate reality will be found.    RVW, 1948

Bonehelm

#113
June 15, 2007, 10:28:02 PM
In no particular order, except for Beethoven's rank on the list:

Beethoven 9
Beethoven 5
Beethoven 7
Mahler 2
Mahler 8
Mahler 1
Tchaikovsky 6
Brahms 4
Schubert 9
Bruckner 4

Marc

#114
June 15, 2007, 11:43:20 PM
Quote from: sonic1 on May 23, 2007, 05:44:55 PM
I hate these kinds of lists [....]

Yeah, me too, and at the same time I'm always tempted to join these threads. ;D

Here's my list:

Tchaikovsky 6
Mozart 40
Mahler 4
Beethoven 7
Mahler 5
Brahms 4
Schubert 8 (Unvollendete)
Mozart 34
Haydn 104
Bruckner 9

I'm sorry that I couldn't fit in Beethoven 6 and Sibelius 5. Life is hard.

Philoctetes

#115
June 16, 2007, 06:08:12 AM
D'Indy Symphony No. 2
Bruckner Symphony No. 5
Bruckner Symphony No. 8
Mahler Symphony No. 3
Mahler Symphony No. 5
Beethoven Symphony No. 2
Brahms Symphony No. 1 to No. 4

Haffner

#116
June 16, 2007, 06:18:26 AM
1. Mozart no. 41
2.Beethoven 9th
3. Mahler 9th
4. Mahler 6th
5. Mahler 3rd
6  J.Haydn n.96
7. Shostakovich 10th
8. Mendelssohn "Italian"
9. J. Haydn n.102
10. Mahler 2nd

not edward

#117
June 16, 2007, 06:20:08 AM
How do I feel today?

Mozart 40
Beethoven 4
Beethoven 8
Mahler 6
Mahler 9
Hartmann 6
Bruckner 5
Bruckner 9
Shostakovich 4
Prokofiev 6
"I don't at all mind actively disliking a piece of contemporary music, but in order to feel happy about it I must consciously understand why I dislike it. Otherwise it remains in my mind as unfinished business."
-- Aaron Copland, The Pleasures of Music

Christo

#118
June 16, 2007, 06:23:52 AM
Quote from: edward on June 16, 2007, 06:20:08 AM
How do I feel today?

Well, tell us!  ;D
... music is not only an 'entertainment', nor a mere luxury, but a necessity of the spiritual if not of the physical life, an opening of those magic casements through which we can catch a glimpse of that country where ultimate reality will be found.    RVW, 1948

Raisa

#119
June 17, 2007, 04:43:26 AM
1) Beethoven 9
2) Shostakovich 7
3) Mahler 6
4) Bruckner 4
5) Dvorak 9
6) Shostakovich 5
7) Brahms 2
8 ) Mozart 41
9) Haydn 48 (Maria Theresia)
10) Beethoven 7
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